''There isn't anyone there.'' Critobal...

BORDER FIGHTING.

November 21, 1986

CIFUENTES, HONDURAS — BORDER FIGHTING. ''There isn't anyone there.'' Critobal Canda, who heads a displaced persons committee, was speaking about 28 villages along the Honduran-Nicaraguan border that have been abandoned because of fighting between Nicaraguan forces and U.S.-backed contra rebels. He estimated that 5,000 people have fled their homes. Relief officials could not confirm that estimate but said the fighting has brought brought a flood of Hondurans and Nicaraguans into refugee camps. ''We are in a complete emergency situation,'' said Waldo Villalpando, head of the U.N. High Commission for Refugees.